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Subject: [BASEES-MEMBERS] The People's Art School and Unovis in Vitebsk, 19
& 20 April 2018, Pembroke College, Cambridge
International conference: 'The People's Art School and Unovis in
Vitebsk'
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
19 & 20 April 2018
In the devastating years that followed Russia's 1917 October Revolution,
a small provincial town in present-day Belarus witnessed the founding of
a revolutionary new art school. At its helm was Marc Chagall, a native
of Vitebsk newly returned from Paris, who was soon joined by fellow
avangardisti in the form of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. Together
with students and colleagues, and against the backdrop of a raging civil
war, this exceptional group of artists elaborated a new path for
artistic education and collective creativity that had a profound
influence far beyond the boundaries of Vitebsk.
Organised by the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) in
collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and generously
supported by the In Artibus Foundation and Pembroke College, Cambridge,
this conference complements the major exhibition, Chagall, Lissitzky, r
Malevich: Vitebsk 1918-1922, which opens this spring in Paris's Centre
Pompidou (28 March - 23 July 2018).
The event draws together fifteen senior academics and emerging scholars
from Belarus, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, the US
and UK to consider anew this vital period - one that is often lost
within the broader history of Russia's celebrated avant-garde. With
papers devoted to a wide range of media, from Russian-Jewish painting to
porcelain and Suprematist ballet, this conference aims to reveal just
what made a short-lived venture far from Russia's artistic centres so
innovative and far-reaching.
For further details and tickets, please visit:
www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/research/cracc/the-peoples-art-school-and-unovis-in-vite
bsk
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Isabel Stokholm
PhD candidate
Department of History of Art
University of Cambridge
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